# Heavy Rain Floods Gaza Tents as Residents Appeal for Shelter

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118984314604167265
- Source account: [@islambader_1988](https://x.com/islambader_1988)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 2026-11-07
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter) I return to the residents’ accounts. First, there’s literal flooding.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=5) In some tents, the water level has risen to one or two meters.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=8) One of the men I met confirmed to me that he had lost his entire food supply as well as his tent’s bedding. The same was true of all his neighbors in the tents nearby.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=20) The residents we met also confirmed that they hadn’t slept for even a single minute during the long night hours, since yesterday.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=30) The rain hasn’t let up. It’s now nine a.m. local time.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=34) The rain is still continuing, so we’ve had around twelve full hours of non-stop rain amid the complete destruction and collapse of infrastructure and drainage systems, so more suffering is inevitable as a result of these rain showers during the first real low-pressure system, in terms of falling temperatures,

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=55) the intensity of the rainfall, and also the speed of the winds.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=61) The appeals we heard from the residents are very simple.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=67) They are asking for some sandbags to protect their tents, if available, and for new tents for those whose tents were swept away by the water.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=76) They are asking for some basic necessities that are practically impossible to replace amid the widespread shortages affecting everything in the Gaza Strip.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=86) They are asking for plastic tarps to protect their tents.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=90) At this moment, rain is still falling heavily across the Gaza Strip.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=95) The thunderstorm is still here. The forecast is that this rainfall will continue for the next few hours, bringing even more suffering.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2BTUOgAj9R2F/en/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-tents-as-residents-appeal-for-shelter?t=103) This is happening as municipalities declare their complete inability to keep up with and carry out the roles assigned to them in protecting residents and draining the water, as well.